ABSTRACT
Watkins, writing in 1991, asked the question: “Psychodiagnostic assessment supervision: What do we really know about it?” Watkins noted the discrepancy between therapy and assessment literatures in favor of therapy. Now, almost 25 years later, not much has changed. A psychologist searching for guidance in the area of psychotherapy supervision will be welcomed by an extensive literature that paints a broad stroke over the supervision canvas, including its models, techniques, and outcome measures. In contrast, this same psychologist would have to search far and wide to uncover an empirical base for the supervision of psychological assessment. Whereas the psychotherapy supervisor has scholarly texts (e.g., Falender & Shafranske, 2004; Ladany, Friedlander, & Nelson, 2005; Watkins, 1997) as supplements to the high volume of peer-reviewed citations that comprise an empirical base, the assessment supervisor must rely on a handful of articles sampling assessment supervision, including stages (Finkelstein & Tuckman, 1997), competencies (Krishnamurthy & Yalof, 2010), and techniques (e.g., Yalof & Abraham, 2009).
